Module-I:
1. Explain Network Application Architectures.
2. Explain transport services available to applications
3. Give overview of Web and HTTP.
4. Explain Non Persistent and persistent TCP connections.
5. Write the HTTP request and HTTP response message format
6. Explain Web Caching (Proxy Server).
7. Write and Explain FTP Commands and Replies.
8. Compare HTTP with SMTP
9. Explain mail access protocol – POP3
10. Explain the services provided by DNS
11. Explain the 3 classes of DNS servers organized in hierarchy.
12. Explain DNS resource record.
13. Explain scalability of P2P architecture or Illustrate simple quantitative model
for file distribution to a fixed set of peers
14. Explain circular DHT
15. Explain socket programming with TCP.
Module-II:
1. Explain the relationship between Transport and Network layer
2. Explain transport layer multiplexing and demultiplexing .
3. Why an application developer would ever choose to build an application over
UDP rather than TCP?
4. Explain reliable data transfer over a channel with bit errors using FSM.
5. Explain reliable data transfer over Lossy channel with bit errors using FSM.
6. Explain pipelined Go-Back-N Protocol with FSM.
7. Explain TCP segment structure.
8. Explain round trip time estimation and time out.
9. Explain flow control.
10. Explain TCP Congestion management.
11. Write FSM description of TCP congestion control.
Module 3:
1. What is Forwarding and Routing?
2. Explain architecture of a Router?
3. Explain Input Processing, Switching and Output Processing.
4. Explain where does queuing occur?
5. What is routing control plane?
6. Explain IPV6 Datagram format.
7. Explain the transition from IPV4 to IPV6 or Tunneling.
8. Give a brief introduction about IP Security?
9. What are routing algorithms and explain the types of routing algorithm.
10. Explain the Link State Routing Algorithm.
11. Explain the Distance Vector Routing Algorithm.
12. Write a comparison between LS and DV Routing Algorithm.
13. Explain Hierarchical routing with Autonomous system.
14. Explain Intra AS Routing algorithm: RIP.
15. Explain Intra AS Routing algorithm: OSPF.
16. Explain Inter AS Routing algorithm: BGP.
17. Explain Broadcast Routing Algorithm with all the types.
18. Explain IGMP.
19. Explain Multicast Routing Algorithm.
Module 4:
1. How can you protect the organization computing assets.
2.Discuss the Network Security threats.
3. Discuss Symmetric and Asymmetric crypto system with a diagram
4. Explain Feistel cipher structure
5. Explain the working of DES
6. Explain RSA Algorithm
7.Explain how secure key exchange happens using Diffe Hillmen algorithm
8. Explain Authentication protocols
9. Explain the need of fire wall in an organization.
10.Discuss Secure hash function algorithm(SHA) is suitable for checking the integrity of the message
Module 5:
1. Write the properties of Video.
2. Explain Streaming stored audio and video.
3. Explain HTTP Streaming.
4. Explain Netflix with architecture.
5. Explain Diffserv.
6. Explain Adaptive streaming and DASH.
7. Explain CDN operation.
8. Explain the three broad approaches towards network level support for multimedia applications.